Thomas Edward Ellingham                  Updated: 18 MAY 2021

Airman: a050025.htm Surname: Ellingham Init: T E Rank: Sgt Service: RAF Sqdn: 207

P_link: p177.htm Plane: LAN W4945 Operation: Minelaying Crash_site: At Remmerstrand

Crash_d: d290443 Buried_d: b050543 C_link: c050.htm At_Next: Lemvig, Grave 696

Natten til den 29. april 1943 udførte RAF en større mineudlægningsoperation over Østersøen og de indre danske farvande, hvorunder mindst 10 bombefly blev skudt ned på dansk område. Dette Lancaster-fly blev således ramt af tysk flak og styrtede ned vest for Oddesund-broen, omkring her. Hele besætningen omkom. Flyverne blev begravet i Lemvig efterhånden som de blev fundet. (Kilder: FAF og AOD)
Hvordan blev flystyrtet oplevet af en dreng på 14 år? Se en beretning fra Orla Marcel Hansen og p177MACR.

Sgt T.E. Ellingham blev begravet af sognepræsten den 5. maj 1943.
Sergeant (Air Bomber) Thomas Edward Ellingham, 29 år, var fra United Kingdom. (Kilde: CWGC)
Se også Minelægningsområder og Lancaster fotos. 7 flyvere.

 On the night before 29 April 1943 the RAF carried out a great minelaying operation over the Baltic Sea
and the inner Danish waters, during which at least 10 bombers were shot down on Danish territory.
This Lancaster was hit by German flak and crashed west of the Oddesund-bridge, around here.
All of the crew perished. The airmen were buried in Lemvig in the course of time when they were found. (Sources: FAF and AOD)

Sgt T.E. Ellingham was buried by the vicar in charge of the parish of Lemvig on 5 May 1943.

Sergeant (Air Bomber) Thomas Edward Ellingham, 29, was from the United Kingdom. (Source: CWGC)
He is remembered on The Walls of Names at the International Bomber Command Centre, Phase 1,  P 32.

See No. 207 Squadron RAF - Wikipedia * 207 Squadron History * Lancaster * Lancaster Photos
Lancaster I W4945 EM-Z took off from RAF Langar at 20.55 hrs on 28 APR 1943.
(Source: Aircrew Remembered has this.) See also p177MACR. 7 airmen.